[mythtv-users] XvMC not loaded

[Allan Wilson]

On 5/21/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/06, Allan Wilson <allanwilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/21/06, Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
> > > Allan Wilson schreef:
> > > > On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com
> > > > <mailto:allanwilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     On 5/20/06, *Allan Wilson* <allanwilson at gmail.com
> > > >     <mailto:allanwilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         I am not sure what I have done wrong but Standard XvMC is
> not
> > > >         available in my Playback Settings section. When I ran
> > > >          mythfrontend  -v important,general,playback
> > > >         I saw the following error message
> > > >         Couldn't find package XvMC
> > > >         I did compile in xvmc support with Myth and when I look at
> the
> > > >         setup I have it in there:
> > > >         sh-3.00$ mythbackend --version
> > > >         Library API version: 0.19.20060331-1
> > > >         Source code version: 9716
> > > >         Options compiled in:
> > > >          linux release using_xvmcw using_v4l using_oss using_alsa
> > > >         using_arts using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2 using_lirc
> > > >         using_joystick_menu using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr
> using_xvmc
> > > >         using_xvmc_vld using_frontend using_backend
> > > >         I have done everything in the wiki for xvmc except to it to
> use
> > > >         it in the playback settings since I don't have that option
> and
> > > >         am I am getting choppy audio and video using mythfrontend to
> > > >         playback HD content. If I use mplayer or xine it looks
> great.
> > > >         Any ideas
> > > >
> > > >         Allan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     Update, I updated my version of Myth to SVN version 9953 and I
> now
> > > >     have the Standard XvMC option in Playback settings but if I
> select
> > > >     that choice and try to play something back it kills XWindows and
> I
> > > >     get this error message from mythfrontend:
> > > >     VideoOutputXv Error: XvMC output requested, but is not supported
> by
> > > >     display.
> > > >
> > > >     Allan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Doing more reading it looks like it is trying to tell me that my
> card
> > > > does not support that feature but I am using a nVidia GeForce 6600GT
> > > > 128MB AGP card.
> > > >
> > > > Allan
> > > >
> > >
> > > I cannot recall all details from previous posts, but you *are* using
> the
> > >     NVidia proprietary binaries, right? (8756 is the latest/greatest
> > a.t.m.)
> > > --
> > > Francesco
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> >
> > I think I have the latest, this is from my xorg.0.log file:
> > (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> > (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> > (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> >         compiled for 4.0.2, module version > >         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>
> did you install the xvmc dev library for Xorg?
>
> --
> Steve
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I think you are talking about libxvmc-dev and I do have it loaded although
it acts like it is not there:
mythtv at mythtv:~$ sudo apt-get install libxvmc-dev
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
libxvmc-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
mythtv at mythtv:~$ locate libxvmc-dev
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libxvmc-dev.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libxvmc-dev.list
/usr/share/doc/libxvmc-dev
/usr/share/doc/libxvmc-dev/changelog.Debian.gz

Allan
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